Barbara Wilson has been trailing my work for years, though she won’t admit it. Many of her trainers have come to my workshops; I have even been hired by Wilson Partner Schools and that’s stirred the poop pot. I’m quite confident that you didn’t show them word sums with equals signs or represent base elements with hyphens on both ends or pretend like kids have to learn all of the “letter-sounds” before they can study morphology.

This has been going on in Dyslexia Industry circles for years. I’ve seen IDA presentations and materials where people claim they “do word sums” or “do morphology” only to present *tion or equals signs or other baloney.

This definitely bothers me. It feels quick and dirty, like an add-on solely to jump on the morphology train. The Wilsons came to one of our presentations last year and I hope they didn’t get these ideas there…

I wish I could read your comments in purple. I use a similar O-G program with the same phonograms. I’d like to understand your concerns, so that I can consider how/what I need to adjust in order to make my own teaching more correct. G

If you click on each photo, you can see it larger. Also, use an actual computer instead of a phone. If you still can’t see it on a computer, then enlarge your screen view.

The word “phonogram” is not really a thing. It’s not a linguistic term, not scientific. It’s just a an uttered thing recorded in some way. It could be a word. It could be a recording. It could be a grapheme or a syllable or a rime. It’s very confused.

All OG-based / phonics programs are phull of phonological phalsehoods. But hey — you are in luck! If you’d “like to understand [my] concerns,” there is a whole 8 years of writing here on this website for you to read through. I have explained my concerns over and over and over! The understanding is yours for the taking, free of charge — so get reading.